Adelle M. Banks
Fifty years after voting act, black churches fight new voting restrictions
Fifty years after the signing of the Voting Rights Act, many black churches are redoubling efforts to maintain access to the ballot box.
...White House proposes rules on faith-based social services
The Obama administration released proposed rules August 5 designed to protect the religious freedom of people who receive social services from government-funded religious programs.
...Kim Morrow, Lennox Yearwood Jr., among climate leaders receiving White House award: People
From a zero-waste synagogue to global development work after natural disasters, environmental projects by faith leaders are being hailed by the Obama administration as examples of exemplary leaders...
Black clergy walk a fine line between religious liberty, discrimination
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(RNS) Since the Supreme Court ruled that same-sex marriage is constitutional, Jerry Young has been in a quandary.
...Adventists vote against women's ordination
Seventh-day Adventists voted 1,381 to 977 at their 60th General Conference Session in San Antonio not to allow their regional church bodies to ordain women pastors.
...Black churches debate forms of protection after fires, deaths
The leader of the National Baptist Convention, USA, says churches should “do everything that is humanly possible” to protect themselves—even if it means hiring armed guards.
...Washington Cathedral dean on Confederate flags: 'It is time to take those windows out'
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...Civil rights veteran John Lewis urges black clergy to 'fix' Voting Rights Act
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...Emanuel is latest victim in history of violence against black churches
For African Americans, church violence has historic dimensions....
Southern Baptists' efforts at racial reconciliation a mixed bag, review finds
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(RNS) Twenty years after the Southern Baptist Convention passed its landmark resolution on racial reconciliation, has it made any real progress?
...Gil Caldwell, King's ‘foot soldier’ for civil rights, works for LGBT rights, too: People
Gil Caldwell, 81, visited the campus of Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina, for a glimpse of what might have been.
...Interfaith activists call solitary confinement immoral, ineffective
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...Gil Caldwell, a ‘foot soldier’ for civil rights, turns his eye to LGBT rights
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...From Ferguson to Baltimore, black America's faith is tested
In the past week, Kelly Brown Douglas, a black Episcopal priest and religion professor at Baltimore’s Goucher College, joined students as they watched, analyzed and agonized about their city erupting in protest after the death of yet another black man, Freddie Gray, in police custody.
On Friday, the Baltimore state’s attorney criminally charged six officers involved in Gray’s death and declared his arrest was illegal.
Loretta Lynch supporters hold ‘pray-in’ on Capitol Hill to urge a vote on her confirmation
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...Robert H. Schuller, televangelist and Reformed pastor, dies at 88: People
Robert H. Schuller, a televangelist and Reformed pastor, died April 2 at age 88, according to the Hour of Power ministry he started.
He was diagnosed with esophageal cancer in 2013.
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